Former I-Team reporter Joe Bergantino was set in 2002 to expose
a major 9-11 bomb shell, until WBZ management got a call from
the government
August 23, 2009

by Rich Aucoin

In early 2002, Manhattan risk architect Indira Singh was
innocently helping JP Morgan Chase find a reputable software
company that could help them update their security needs for a
post-911 world, when she accidentally discovered that an alleged
Saudi terrorist named Yassin Al-Kadi was running a tiny software
company out of Quincy, MA, called PTech.

The most shocking part of Singh's discovery was PTech's
unbelievable client roster, which included:
The FAA, the USAF, the CIA, FBI, DoJ, Dept of Energy, Customs,
Enron, NATO, the Secret Service, and even the White House.

Singh immediately phoned the Boston office of the FBI to notify
them that an accused terrorist had gained backdoor access to the
highest levels of the U.S. government, but month after month
passed by with no apparent action being taken against PTech,
until Singh was finally forced to question whether PTech was
being protected.

Growing increasingly nervous, Singh began notifying every local,
state and federal authority she could think of. But not only did
her screaming from the rooftops accomplish almost nothing, she
even lost her job at JP Morgan after her bosses there (who
evidently enjoyed a considerable Saudi client base) told her to
drop the issue, or else.

It quickly became apparent to Singh that she'd stumbled upon a
key element of the 9-11 story that was aggressively being
covered up by the government, for if the story of PTech's
software were to get out, then many, many dots would start being
connected regarding how 19 cave dwellers armed only with box
cutters had somehow outfoxed the most sophisticated and
impenetrable defense systems in the world.

Feeling abandoned and terrified, Singh went to legendary WBZ
I-Team reporter Joe Bergantino in May of '02, primarily to
ensure that her story would at least be made public, in case
something happened to her. Bergantino took her allegations
seriously and commissioned a four-month investigation in
Washington, DC to verify her story. Not only did Bergantino's
team verify Singh's story, they told her afterward that PTech's
terrorism connections ran far deeper than even she knew.

Bergantino planned to run his bombshell story on 9/11/02, but
the station reportedly was "asked" by "authorities" to hold off,
for "national security reasons." (Singh claims to possess proof
that WBZ was ordered by the Bush/Cheney White House to drop the
investigation).

On December 6th, 2002, PTech's Quincy office was finally raided
by the FBI -- but only after the company had had months of
warnings that a raid might be coming -- and the White House
immediately issued a statement saying the FBI had goofed, that
Al Qadi was a swell guy.

Fast forward six years to 2008: Bergantino leaves WBZ while
still waiting for FBI's final conclusions about PTech

Bergantino left WBZ in 2008 to take a job at Boston University,
where he continued to sit on his PTech evidence, pending the
outcome of the FBI's own investigation. His long wait finally
ended in July, 2009, when the PTech indictments finally came
down.

After all its years of investigating, the FBI had managed to
charge PTech's terror suspect merely with loan fraud. That's it!
Loan fraud!!! Not a word about how a tiny software startup
somehow amassed such incredibly intimate, under-the-hood access
to our national security systems! Not a single question about
whether Ptech's magical software had played a role in the
unprecedented and inexplicable failures of 9-11. Poor Joe
Bergantino; after waiting nearly seven years to see the fruits
of the FBI's investigation -- which had been the government's
justification for "asking" him to sit on his own evidence -- and
all he gets is loan fraud??!!!

It appears that Joe Bergantino has been robbed of a
once-in-a-lifetime bombshell Exclusive that could have been his
Pentagon-Papers career moment. He could have been THE guy to
blow the lid off the 9-11 coverup, and early on, too, before its
foul-tasting "Patriot" Act could be jammed down our throats and
before the Bush cabal could sell its bogus Iraq war in 2003.
Bergantino's story could have ended the Afghanistan war before
it killed large numbers of US soldiers needlessly. But it wasn't
to be. The government's sheer determination to protect PTech, as
confirmed now by these sham indictments, stole it all away from
Bergantino -- and us.

Indira's Burden

Indira Singh was lucky, in retrospect. She'd had the luxury of
unloading her terrible Ptech burden on Joe Bergantino back in
2002. His courage and willingness to investigate her explosive
claims may well have saved her life, as he managed at least to
expose the Ptech controversy.

But now that her burden has been transferred to Bergantino's
shoulders, where can he turn? Who will take his story seriously?
Who will stand by him?

Evidently not his former bosses at WBZ

All the available evidence shows that WBZ knows at least as much
about PTech as Bergantino knows. So it is now their turn to step
up to the plate for Bergantino, the way he did for Indira Singh
in her hour of need. But, so far, WBZ is staying eerily silent
about PTech, leaving poor Joe hanging out to dry.

Write or call WBZ and ask them to release ALL the details of
their I-Team investigation from June to September of 2002. Ask
them to stand behind the best investigative reporter in WBZ's
history. Call channel 5 and channel 7. Tell them that their CBS
rival is covering up a major element of 9-11. Give them the
PTech scoop.

Indira Singh's PTech discovery has been dubbed: "the one golden
thread you pull on and the whole 9-11 story unravels." That is
precisely why Bergantino's old-school journalism had to be
muzzled by his corporate bosses at WBZ.

WBZ management must do the right thing by Joe Bergantino, and by
America.. They must tell ALL they know about PTech. Now.